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Personal genomics as an interactive web broadcast
Published 2009-06-01Personal genomics and whole-genome sequencing are rapidly becoming established on the spectrum of genomic research and service provision. It appears that we do in fact possess curiosity about our genomes, enough to prompt ...Open AccessArticle -
Personalised medicine: a critique on the future of health care
Published 2013-01-01In recent years we have seen the emergence of “personalised medicine.” This development can be seen as the logical product of reductionism in medical science in which disease is increasingly understood in molecular terms. ...Open AccessArticle -
Peter Robertson: Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe (book review)
Published 2017-01-01The founding and flourishing of an entirely new field, radio astronomy, must rate among the most impressive episodes in the history of Australian science. Radio astronomy was as deeply symbolic of a new sense of national ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Pharmaceutical industry support for continuing medical education: Is it time to disengage?
Published 2011-10-17Over the past two decades, the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has been a source of intense debate, largely because of concern that it may harm patients through inappropriate ...Open AccessArticle -
Pharmaceuticals, money and the health care organisational field
Published 2015-07-23Using an institutional theory framework, this article discusses the place of the pharmaceutical industry within the health care organizational field, and the wideranging effects the industry has on the other organizations ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Picturing the Pain of Animal Others: Rationalising Form, Function and Suffering in Veterinary Orthopaedics
Published 2009-01-01Advances in veterinary orthopaedics are assessed on their ability to improve the function and wellbeing of animal patients. And yet historically veterinarians have struggled to bridge the divide between an animal’s ...Open AccessArticle -
The place of patient-centred care in medical professional culture: a qualitative study.
Published 2013-01-01Despite widespread support, the implementation of patient-centred care (PCC) remains a challenge and it is often assumed that further clinical education and culture change are needed. To inform such efforts, we need to ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Policies and Practices of Australian Universities on Competing Interests of Academic Staff
Published 2011-06-25It is widely recognized that competing financial(and non-financial) interests may (inappropriately) influence the design and outcomes of research, the nature of public discourse and the development of public policy and the ...Open AccessOther -
Policies on pets for healthy cities: A conceptual framework.
Published 2015-01-01Drawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and ...Open AccessArticle -
Policy considerations for mandatory COVID_19 vaccination from the Collaboration on Social Science in Immunisation
Published 2021Public attention is increasingly turning towards how Australia can achieve the very high vaccination coverage needed for optimal control of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Governments ...Article -
The political and ethical challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
Published 2015-01-01This article critically examines current responses to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and argues that bioethics needs to be willing to engage in a more radical critique of the problem than is currently offered. In ...Open AccessArticle -
Portrayals of canine obesity in English-language newspapers and in leading veterinary journals, 2000-2009: Implications for animal welfare organizations and veterinarians as public educators
Published 2011-01-01In industrialized societies, more than one in three dogs as well as people currently qualify as overweight or obese. Experts in public health expect both these figures to rise. While clinical treatment remains important, ...Open AccessArticle -
Power and control in interactions between journalists and health-related industries – the view from industry.
Published 2014-01-01The mass media is a major source of health information for the public, and as such the quality and independence of health news reporting is an important concern. Concerns have been expressed that journalists reporting on ...Open AccessArticle -
The precarious future of the discourse of person-centered medicine
Published 2014-01-01Discourses are more than just patterns of words. For discourse communities, they express ideologies and provide meanings that can be translated into action. They are vehicles for reform when they thrive. The discourse of ...Open AccessArticle -
Preconception testing and screening: Has the HGC covered all the bases?
Published 2011-07-25Has the Human Genetics Commission (HGC)'s recent report on population-wide preconception genetic testing and screening (1) convincingly demonstrated that this practice raises 'no specific ethical, legal or social principles' ...Open AccessArticle -
Prenatal diagnosis and abortion for congenital abnormalities: is it ethical to provide one without the other?
Published 2009-07-01This target article considers the ethical implications of providing prenatal diagnosis (PND) and antenatal screening services to detect fetal abnormalities in jurisdictions that prohibit abortion for these conditions. This ...Open AccessArticle -
Prenatal testing, cancer risk and the overdiagnosis dilemma
Published 2015-04-13In March, US company Sequenom revealed that its MaterniT21 non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) has detected potential cancer in some pregnant women (see BioNews 793). As well as receiving information about their fetus, around ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Preventing perinatal group B streptococcal infection: the jury is still out.
Published 2002-01-01EVER SINCE GROUPB streptococcus (GBS) emerged as the commonest cause of perinatal sepsis in the late 1970s, there has been controversy about prevention strategies. A few hospitals in Australia were among the first in the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Privacy in the context of ‘re-emergent’ infectious diseases.
Published 2014-04-27James is a 31-year-old information technology worker who has been referred to you by the Department of Health for tuberculosis (TB) screening. A work colleague, Susan, has been recently diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
The Problems of Biobanking and the Law of Gifts
Published 2014-09-01The practice of biobanking is of major importance to biomedical research in modern Western economies. However, biobanking is troubled by a number of ethical and legal concerns including issues of consent, control and ...Open AccessBook chapter